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Why are incumbent telecommunications firms and cable operators so afraid of municipal networks?
Two incumbent selectwomen were trounced during the April 2 annual town election, showing voters' dissatisfaction with the status quo.
They also were incumbent companies that resisted change and eventually were consumed by it.
Win or lose, the publicity should help increase Vonage's name recognition in its David against Goliath battle against the incumbent telcos.
The laws of the Hague establish the rights and obligations incumbent on belligerents.
Needless to say, it implies that the business environment of Korea has deteriorated throughout the final year of the incumbent government.
There may have been an incumbent with a shorter tenure in such a position, but don't bet on it.
As the premier body in the town it was incumbent that they recognise the efforts of both for the betterment of the local community.
In 1976 he was appointed as the second incumbent to the high sheriffdom of Tyne and Wear.
A change in anyone's government gets far more attention than an election that returns the incumbent government to office.
Each year the incumbent officials perform ceremonies to remember the event.
In the light of the Shoah, it is incumbent upon the church now to decide how matters of history can become ingredient to theological reflection.
However, it also sets out a number of duties incumbent upon the American citizen.
But, given their failure, it was incumbent upon them to respond to the argument in some manner.
It is a small union and it does not take many votes to defeat an incumbent official.
It is incumbent on the Government to accept that responsibility and explain to the people of the region what will happen.
This time I've got a clear preference that the incumbent be turned out, and a clear threshold difference with the Libertarian.
They are also calling on the city executive to stop transferring workers who are aligned with political opponents of incumbent officials.
They were media events, too, staged as much for the international press corps as to put pressure on the incumbent regimes.
Instead of highlighting the brutality sustaining the incumbent regimes in power, these analysts blame the victims.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Calderon has not deemed it incumbent upon him to demand a card from Cadwallader.
It could not, then, be incumbent on her to let her life be taken in payment.
Every man, woman, and child, thinks it incumbent on them to sport a mourning face.
This was the feeling that had made it incumbent on him to repudiate a wife who had so treated him.
In the Crepuscular tribes the upper wings are incumbent on the lower, and deflexed.
His pastoral letter and his pamphlet were sent to every incumbent minister, and copies were given to the heads of families.
It was vulgarly called witch-riding, and considered as arising from the weight of fuliginous spirits incumbent on the breast.
This is beginning to be borne out by the ineptness of the incumbent Labour government of Wales.
It was incumbent upon Mr. Gladstone to lead the opposition to this motion.
The very utmost he can do is no more than is incumbent upon him.
Could they find a swashbuckler willing to assail the present incumbent?
They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate.
Mrs. mcmahon felt it incumbent on her to administer a rebuke to the girl.
Linda Sanchez, D-Lakewood, admitted that unseating the incumbent McKeon will be a challenge.
From it are deduced not only the hues but the forms of all objects incumbent.
She did not mean to have her own affections entangled again, and it would be incumbent on her to avoid any encouragement of his.
And true to tradition, the present incumbent George Bush carried out his annual show of mercy by pardoning two gobbling turkeys from Thanksgiving dinner today.
It is essential, in order to a complete estimate of the advantages of official life, to view the incumbent at the in-coming of a hostile administration.
Madame Tussauds London has revealed wax figures of all the actors who have played James Bond, with five completely new waxworks joining the incumbent 007 Daniel Craig.
But towards the close, the raps became so sharp and frequent, and his voice so quarrelsome, that Vixen felt it incumbent on her to jump out of the hamper and bark vaguely.
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